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SB1070 provisions blocked:

The provision that required local and state law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of those individuals that law enforcement officers had a “reasonable suspicion” were illegal aliens;

The provision that required state officials to check the immigration status of anyone in custody in Arizona before they were released from jail;

The provision that made it a state crime for any foreign resident of Arizona to fail to carry federally-issued immigration documents at all times;

The provision that made it a state crime for any for any illegal alien in Arizona to solicit, apply for, or perform work.

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With respect to the first two items blocked Judge Bolton stated that the increased number of immigration status checks emanating from Arizona as a result of the implementation of those two sections would overwhelm the federal immigration officials who are pursuing different priorities. Roughly translated this means that Arizona’s attempt to enforce already existing federal immigration laws could end up being so effective that the federal immigration officials might actually have to do the job they were hired to do. At the present time the officials in charge of enforcing the existing immigration laws have been directed to selectively enforcing a few immigration laws against illegal aliens who are also violent felons. This is somewhat paradoxical to many because the government ignores the presence of these illegal trespassers until they murder, rape or beat someone half to death and then, if the immigration authorities discover they are illegal aliens they can deport them. The fact that every illegal alien breaks the law by entering the country without authorization, breaks the law by soliciting employment in violation of federal law, fails to register their presence as required by federal law, falsifies documents in order to secure employment and irrefutably poses a great burden on the American economy leaves some measure of doubt regarding their intentions. The willful violation of 20 or 30 federal laws is not a sufficiently clear demonstration of the illegal aliens total lack of respect for American law to warrant the attention of the immigration department. Illegal aliens are released from American prisons and jails every day after committing violent crimes and they are frequently released onto American streets because the immigration authorities are too busy doing something else to be bothered with them. Even when they are deported they simply turn around and come back. Violent predatory illegal aliens are picked up after committing additional crimes in the United States every day. The Obama administration has said its priority is to focus on those illegal aliens who engage in crime or are otherwise dangerous; however, while that may be the stated position of the Obama administration, it is far from accurate. The job of the president is to ensure that all federal laws are enforced equitably, not selectively.

Aside from the general lack of logic demonstrated by Judge Bolton in her decision to block the Arizona state officials from checking the immigration status of anyone they have in custody, her ruling is patently illegal in that it puts the Arizona law enforcement personnel in a position of having to violate the federal statute under Title 8 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter II > Part IX > § 1373 which states “Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Furthermore this provision requires “The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.”

The third provision of SB1070 that Judge Bolton decided to block; the provision that made it a state crime for any foreign resident of Arizona to fail to carry federally-issued immigration documents at all times, is a federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1304 subsection(e)), which reads as follows:

“Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.”

Bolton’s decision to block the provision making it a state crime for any for any illegal alien in Arizona to solicit, apply for, or perform work will have little or no effect on the state of Arizona. Some years ago the state passed a law requiring all employers to use E-Verify to ascertain the immigration status of prospective employees. That law established stiff penalties for businesses that failed to comply. Inasmuch as that law is separate from SB1070, and has been in effect for quite a while, its provisions are beyond Bolton’s extensive reach. Additionally, she could not touch the SB1070 provision prohibiting the adoption of sanctuary policies anywhere in the state because there is no federal law in this regard and the provision that allows Arizona residents to sue local leaders for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, prohibit the transport of illegal aliens, and restrict solicitation of illegal alien day laborers will go into effect along with the remaining provisions of SB1070.

Ironically, any Arizona communities that participate in the federal government’s 287(g) and Secure Communities programs can still do so despite Judge Bolton’s decision. The number one, most enthusiastic participant in the federal government’s 287(g) program is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio whose industrious police department was responsible for the deportations or forced departure of 26,146 immigrants since 2007. With all the celebrating illegal aliens in town he may double that number before the end of the week.

While the opponents of SB1070 may be celebrating what they dimly view as a victory, Judge Bolton’s decision will certainly increase the animosity for illegal aliens in the state of Arizona and things could get very ugly in the days to come as the residents realize that they have been sucker-punched by a presidential administration that is going all out to curry political favor with the criminal element that plagues their state.

On a national basis, this decision is one more indication that Barack Obama’s ultimate goal is to destroy the United States by devastating the American economy and dividing the people into warring factions.

The decision reached is available below as a PDF file

Judge Bolton’s Decision

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Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, has filed suit against the State of Arizona to stop the implementation of immigration enforcement measures approved by more than 75% of the state’s population because the Obama Administration purportedly believes that the law might lead to an increase in “Racial Profiling” toward Hispanics. This simple-minded justification is, in fact, a lie, Obama desires unfettered control to implement his agenda and he is not the least bit concerned with racial profiling of Hispanics or anyone else. Despite the fact that the new law specifically, and very strongly, prohibits law enforcement personnel from stopping people on the basis of race alone, Barack Obama, following a private meeting with members of the Latino advocacy groups who financially supported his election. Barack Obama directed Eric Holder to file the suit. It can be considered compensation for favors granted; it can be considered payback for the Latino advocacy groups who worked hard to register the illegal alien voters who helped to put Obama in office, it can be considered many things, but it cannot be considered “Justice” by any stretch of the imagination. Neither the President of the United States nor the elected representatives sitting in the United States Congress are the least bit concerned with the fact that the vast majority of American people support Arizona’s attempt to defend their state against illegal aliens. They do not care that the American people have repeatedly spoken out against amnesty for illegal aliens, and they do not care to listen to the voices of any who are critical of the destiny they have chosen for the American people. The American people will comply with the demands of their government masters or they will suffer the consequences of their non-compliance.

Essentially, Eric Holder’s case against Arizona consists of the simple fact that the state of Arizona is reaffirming the federal government’s immigration law, and that Arizona’s re-affirmation of federal immigration law usurps the federal government’s exclusive authority over all matters related to immigration.

The hostile action initiated against the state of Arizona by Eric Holder at the demand of Barack Obama should be of great concern to all American citizens, especially the majority of American citizens who support Arizona’s right to defend their state against foreign and illegal invaders because the federal government’s lawsuit essentially claims that you, as an American citizen, support and approve of the hostile actions being taken against Arizona. This lawsuit is not about the constitutionality of Arizona’s law; it is about the Democratic Party’s agenda to maintain their control over the American people at any cost.

The 25 page complaint, which can be downloaded on the Internet for anyone interested in reading it, is entitled “The United States of America v. The State of Arizona” (Case 2:10-cv-01413-NVW Filed 07/06/10) and the basic premise of the case, as stated in the introduction is as follows:

“1. In this action, the United States seeks to declare invalid and preliminarily and permanently enjoin the enforcement of S.B. 1070, as amended and enacted by the State of Arizona, because S.B. 1070 is preempted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.”

“2. In our constitutional system, the federal government has preeminent authority to regulate immigration matters. This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress. The nation’s immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests. Congress has assigned to the United States Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Department of State, along with other federal agencies, the task of enforcing and administering these immigration-related laws. In administering these laws, the federal agencies balance the complex – and often competing – objectives that animate federal immigration law and policy. Although states may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a state may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the federal immigration laws. The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country.”

For those that are less attuned to the translation of precise legal terminology as it is used in the state and federal courts across the United States of America, the two paragraphs introducing the federal government’s case against the state of Arizona essentially put forth the claim that the people of Arizona, as expressed by a majority of the state’s legal voting citizens, their desire to implement a new state law that would protect them from the economic damage and predatory criminal acts of the illegal aliens flooding into their state from Mexico by the millions; however, the federal government, at the direction of Barack Hussein Obama, has determined that the American citizens living in the state of Arizona, do not have the right to defend themselves against the criminal illegal aliens, despite the economic ruin those illegal aliens cause, and regardless of the murders, kidnappings, rapes, child molestations, assaults, robberies and other violent and non-violent crimes those illegal aliens commit against the law abiding citizens of Arizona. Furthermore, the Arizona citizen’s attempt to defend themselves against the havoc caused by illegal aliens, a state of chaos that is becoming so commonplace in the rest of the nation violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and that SB 1070 is therefore preempted by federal law.

The Supremacy Clause is found in Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Supremacy Clause only comes into play when the federal Government has acted in a given field, however, in reaching this determination the court stipulated that a violation of the supremacy clause only occurs when one of the two following conditions is met. (Edgar v. Mite Corporation, 457 U.S. 624 (1982))

1. Compliance with both the Federal and State laws is impossible, or

2. The state law stands acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress

With respect to the 1st condition as stated above, it would be extremely difficult to establish that the implementation of SB 1070′s legal provisions made it impossible or even slightly difficult for federal immigration authorities to enforce the currently existing federal immigration laws because the legal provisions implemented as a result of SB 1070 serve to reinforce the currently existing federal immigration laws by making a violation of those currently existing federal laws a violation of the Arizona state laws as well.

Under Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, “Improper Entry by Alien,” any citizen of any country other than the United States who enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers; or eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers; or attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact; has committed a federal crime.

The federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A) and Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) provide that the federal government considers it a felony crime to transport, shelter, assist or encourage an illegal alien seeking employment in the United States and that illegal aliens and employers of illegal aliens are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. Furthermore, these same federal laws contain provisions stating that it is a felony for a person to intentionally engage in the smuggling of illegal aliens into the U.S. for profit or commercial purpose when the person doing so knows or has reason to know that the person or persons being transported are not United States citizens, permanent resident aliens or individuals who have the prior legal authorization of the federal government to enter this country.

SB 1070 does not contain any provisions that are contrary to the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act, to INA 274A(a)(1)(A), or to Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii).   SB 1070 requires that all Arizona State, County, City and Town law enforcement personnel fully cooperate with the federal government’s enforcement of this nation’s immigration laws, furthermore, it provides that no official or agency of the State, County, City, Town or other political subdivision may adopt any policy that restricts or limits the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law. This provision of SB 1070 is identical to section 834b of the California Penal Code, which states, “Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.”

With respect to the 2nd condition; the complaint filed states, “The Constitution affords the federal government the power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” This is a fact that I will not dispute inasmuch as Article I of the U.S. Constitution specifically states ” “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Furthermore, § 8, cl. 4 of Article I states that among the many powers of the U.S. Congress is the authority, “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” In order to meet this condition the federal government will have to demonstrate how the Arizona law acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress, and to do that the attorneys for the federal government will have to explain how reinforcing the currently existing federal immigration laws acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress. In simpler terms they will be forced to explain the federal government’s agenda behind not enforcing the current immigration laws and demonstrate how their failure to enforce the current immigration laws is consistent with the constitutional foundation stated in the preamble to that document.

“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”

Personally, I believe that the federal government is going to have a tough time creating any credible argument in this regard. The United States General Accounting Office and other agencies of the federal government have released numerous reports to the United States Congress establishing beyond reasonable doubt that illegal aliens have had a disproportionate impact on the cost of American health care; that the increase in identity theft is directly proportionate to the increase in illegal aliens, that a disproportionate percentage of illegal aliens repeatedly commit violent sex crimes against women and children and that the majority of fraudulent claims for welfare benefits, social security and other federal and state subsidized entitlement programs are made by illegal aliens. Furthermore, the federal government will be forced to explain how anywhere between 10 and 40 million illegal alien criminals (85% of whom are from Mexico) does not constitute an invasion under the terms of ARTICLE IV § 4, and why neither the legislative nor the executive branch of the federal government has fulfilled their sworn obligation to uphold the law of the land and repel these foreign invaders.

It is hard to imagine how the federal government can pursue this case without making it entirely obvious that they have allowed up to 40 million foreign invaders, including many violent predators and child molesters to enter this country illegally for the benefit of the Democratic Party alone; they have overlooked the economic hardship these criminal invaders have caused to the individual states; they have disregarded the multitude of American citizens murdered, raped and traumatized by illegal alien predators along with the well substantiated statistical fact that nearly 5,000 American citizens are killed by illegal aliens every year and they have done this simply because they want to remain in power regardless of the cost and human suffering we experience. Essentially, the Democratic administration and legislature currently controlling the decision making process in Washington D.C. are more than happy to put the lives of American citizens in a position of great danger on the off-chance that the fear that is thereby generated among the general populace will overwhelm the American people’s desire to reduce the growth of government interference in our daily lives. A population that lives in constant fear is a population that demands greater protection, and our government is all too happy to provide that protection if we comply with their demands. The current Democrat administration and the Democrat controlled legislature are well aware of the substantial evidence that Middle Eastern terrorists are entering the United States across our southern border with Mexico. Some of these terrorists have been captured by the Border Patrol and in other cases Border Patrol agents have found significant evidence discarded by those who have successfully entered the country and disappeared into the general population. Reports published as a result of congressional investigations indicate that Middle Eastern religious fanatics and jihadists have established cells in major metropolitan cities around the nation, however, there is no way to stop these crazed fanatics from crossing our southern border with Mexico without adversely affecting the steady influx of illegal aliens from Mexico, Central and South America; illegal aliens who the entire Democratic Party is absolutely assured will cast fraudulent ballots for Democratic politicians thereby ensuring the Democrats the ability to continue their reign of power. The continued control of the federal government is the number one priority of the Democratic Party and they are willing to sacrifice national security, American lives, and the peace and tranquility of the United States of America to achieve their goal.

If these statements leave you with your mouth gaping open in astonished disbelief you are free to check the facts for yourself by researching the federal government’s own published reports at the sites listed below:

The Federation of American Scientists Index of Congressional Research Service Publications

The U.S. Department of State Index of Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs

OpenCRS – Congressional Research Reports for the People

U.S. Government Accountability Office index of reports, audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs

Personally, I would be disappointed in the intelligence of anyone who would read the postings on this site and accepted my word without skepticism. I am not in the business of recruiting a naive flock of followers, my goal is to open your eyes by shining the light of truth on the strategies and techniques of the self-serving political toads in the Democratic and the Republican Party who are dedicated to further undermining the liberty, freedom and prosperity of the United States of America.   I represent nothing but the search for truth and I am not interested in the accumulation of followers. If you are looking for leadership you are in the wrong place, if you are looking for movement try Metamucil.

Whether or not the damage that has already been done can be reversed, I cannot say. We are headed into a dark future filled with tyranny and there may be no way to stop the transformation, especially in light of the fact that so few are aware of anything beyond the useless information, lies and propaganda they read in the papers or see on the nightly news. It may already be too late, the American people have lost their authority over the their form of government and we are not likely to reverse that loss.

Despite the fate of our failing Republic, it is not too late for individuals to learn and appreciate the concept of liberty and freedom that once brought this nation together and it is not to late to pass that appreciation on to future generations.

Liberty is the natural state of all mankind, it is not derived from government, each of us, as individuals enter this life with the desire to live free of governmental restraint, to work out our own fate and set our destiny as we will.   Tyrants and despots will rise and fall but the essential nature of man will never be extinguished.   Because Liberty is the natural state of all mankind, tyrants and despots will always be plagued by those who would  resist.  This is more than fact; it is a fundamental law of nature; it is as binding as gravity and the passing of seasons.  From the seed of liberty springs freedom’s hope.

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In celebration of Barack Hussein Obama’s monumental failure as the 44th and current President of the United States, I have been reviewing the history of past Democratic presidents searching for indications of competence, and I have come to the conclusion that the last Democratic President that lasted full term and had the slightest amount of credibility was probably Harry S. Truman. JFK might have made a good president if he had of avoided that trip to Texas. Lyndon Johnson illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King but nobody has ever figured out why, Jimmy Carter was, next to Obama, was probably the worse excuse for a president this country ever had and Bill Clinton was a skirt chasing clown, but Truman had the huevos to end the war with Japan in a completely horrific display of genocidal insanity, and most of all he kept a sign on his desk that said “The Buck Stops Here.” Simply stated, Truman was the last Democratic president to accept completely the responsibility for his actions and we haven’t seen another Democrat like that since then.

Barack Hussein Obama does not see himself as an abysmal failure, he sees everyone around him as being too stupid or cowardly to make the proper choices that are so evident to him. If everyone simply went along with his program things would be fine, or at least, that’s what he would have us believe. His criticism of the Bush administration’s response to hurricane Katrina was louder and more outrageous than most of his compatriots, but Obama’s response to the environmental disaster ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico makes G.W. Bush look positively brilliant by comparison. Obama’s solution to the oil spill so far has been to let the people who created it take care of the problem while the entire U.S. government sat on its butt doing less than nothing. Even when foreign countries offered to loan us the use of state of the art oil skimmers that would have helped considerably we said “no thank you,” BP’s taking care of the situation. Oil literally gushed into the gulf for 85 days before BP finally got a handle on the situation and whether or not they can maintain that handle is doubtful. The pressure measured on the well are around 6,700 pounds per square inch and slowly rising. It may blow again and create an even bigger mess than it already has.

In the meantime the fishing industry in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and most of the gulf side of Florida has been, and will remain, gutted for decades to come. Barack Obama’s received tons of money from British Petroleum in contributions and he paid them back by letting them write their own ticket in the Gulf, furthermore, he’s covered for them from day one when Deepwater Horizon first exploded. He may not be the only one to take BP’s money, but in the end, he is the guy in charge. The buck stops there.

The environmental damage wrecked by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has wreaked havoc on more than thirty endangered species, including many varieties of sea turtles, whales, the West Indian manatee, Cranes, Storks Pelicans and the American Bald Eagle. It has destroyed the breeding grounds for countless varieties of commercial and sport fish, shrimp, oysters, crabs, shellfish, the grouper, flounder, cobia, sharks, pompanos, and mackerels and sturgeons. It has destroyed the coastal wetlands and estuaries and crept into the freshwater habitats and saturated soils where thousands of animal and plants species once thrived in delicate balance. The hydrocarbon poisons will continue to encroach farther inland as time passes and the destruction may very well leave many endangered animals, fish, birds and vegetation entirely extinct.

This catastrophe was not caused by America’s thirst for oil and it was not caused by George Bush’s reckless environmental abandon. It was Barack Obama who took the money from BP and it was Barack Obama who derived the benefit of their largess. At his direction the responsible agencies stepped aside and allowed BP to have their way and now Barack Hussein Obama, the one man who sits at the top of the food chain in American politics wants us to believe that it is not his fault. “The Buck Stops Here.”

Obama tells us that the Republican Party is standing in the way of the extended unemployment benefits needed by millions of newly unemployed Americans but he neglects to mention that they are unemployed as a direct result of his economic policies and his failure to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. Furthermore, he neglects to mention that there are millions of American citizens who will not benefit from an unemployment benefit extension because they have been unemployed ever since he first took office and no longer qualify, in fact, those people are not even counted anymore because Obama does not want anyone to know how serious the situation has become until after he pays back the illegal alien advocacy groups and labor unions that put him in office. “The Buck Stops Here.”

Barack Hussein Obama does not want a sign on his desk saying “The Buck Stops Here,” because he does not want to accept the consequences for destroying the United States of America and the American way of life. He does not want his legacy to be that of the great destroyer; the man who brought America to its knees; the tyrant that slapped the chains of eternal servitude on every free American. He wants to be the emperor of a new age; the benevolent despot of a third world socialist America. He accepts no blame for the collateral damage he causes, the animals he drives to extinction, the American people he ruins, or the nation he destroys. To Barack Obama, we are the problem, we are his enemies and everything that is wrong about this nation is our fault. That is why he must force us to do as he deems necessary, because the buck does not stop with him, it never has and it never will because we are the enemy and he has made the U.S. Government our enemy. The nightmare that Barack Hussein Obama has become is the fundamental reason why the founding fathers of this Republic ensured the American people the right to bear arms.

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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Unlike Obama, Harry Reid aims to pay the labor unions up front for their support instead of dangling the carrot out there and jerking it away like Obama’s done with the labor sponsored “Employee Free Choice Act.” That’s not the way Harry works, besides that, Harry knows he’s got no credibility and if he can’t deliver first the union supporters just won’t be there for him at election time. The master of dubiously ethical practices has pulled a tactical maneuver that will allow him to plop the Police/Fire Monopoly-Bargaining Bill (S.3194/H.R.413) on the Senate floor with as little as 48 hours public notice, and he can do it with no prior Committee action beforehand. The House version of this “employee no choice” forced union legislation was authored by union-label Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) and it has been introduced misleadingly under the name “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act.” S.3194/H.R.413 would institute a federal mandate foisting union “exclusive representation” (monopoly bargaining) on state and local police, firefighters, and other public-safety employees nationwide, including those states with Right to Work laws. Ultimately, the passage of S.3194/H.R.413 can be challenged in court as unconstitutional because it steps beyond the authority of the federal legislature into areas constitutionally reserved for the states. The labor lobbyist’s bought and paid for union allies in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have agreed to attach the bill to the emergency war funding appropriation, thereby carefully arranging a situation where anyone who opposes the biggest organized labor’s power grab in decades can be accused of withholding necessary funds from the military at a time when they are sorely needed. This bill translates directly into higher taxes and less money in your pocket because it puts the American taxpayer on the hook for the Union’s organizing efforts and the increase in benefits and pension plans that will certainly follow. Small communities that depend on volunteer police and firefighters for their safety will be forced to eliminate them, hire full time public safety employees and negotiate contracts with the union bosses who will control their new public safety workers. Many states and large metropolitan areas are already struggling with budget shortfalls because of their union agreements with public safety unions. Their pension funds are characteristically underfunded and the burden falls squarely on the backs of the tax payers who are forced to make up the difference. Furthermore, unionized law enforcement officers and firefighters have been known to go out on strike to force their demands. With the increasingly restrictive gun-control laws going into effect all over the country who is there to protect you and your family against the well-armed crooks when the cops decide to go on strike? Deciding to join or not join a labor union is a question best left up to the individual, and those who do not wish to join a labor union should not be forced to pay dues that are then given to the Democratic Party. Article I of the U.S. Bill of Rights establishes the right of the people to peacefully assemble. We have the right to associate with those we want to associate with and by contrast we have the right to not associate with those we do not like. It is morally reprehensible to force millions of Americans to give money to labor unions when those labor unions turn around and give that money to the Democratic Party even when a great number of their members would not vote for the candidates the unions are supporting. Many Local unions give as much as 85% of everything they take in from their members to the Democratic campaigns and to the party and that is the sole reason why the Democrats are so insistent about helping big labor. The fight has nothing to do with equity for workers, fairness or the right to choose to be represented or not; it is a scam to take away the worker’s right to avoid being forced into a labor union they want no part of. This legislation is to benefit the Democratic Party at the expense of the American taxpayer by making it easier for the unions to force workers into membership whether they like it or not and there is nothing right about that. The Democratic Party is not the “people’s party”, it is the party that uses people. The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan and certainly has nothering to do with national security. Harry Reid needs to have a few hundred copies of it shoved down his throat to gag him while he hopefully gets voted out of office.

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There is an ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is far from containment. It has already destroyed far too much and there is no end in sight. It has destroyed the income and financial security for thousands of people and wrecked environmental damage with an impact that will be evident forty years from now, if not longer. The government’s response to this crisis has been to put the company that caused this catastrophe in charge of correcting the damage, and to this point that company has failed and the United States government led by Barack Obama does nothing.

The U.S. economy is dead, the federal government is borrowing $5 billion per day just to keep up appearances and nobody in Barack Obama’s administration has even the slightest idea about how to fix the problem. Millions of American citizens are out of work, losing their homes and watching their families go hungry and Barack Obama thinks that this is a good time to pass an amnesty bill to legalize the millions of foreign invaders living here illegally, institute a new guest worker program to bring even more foreign workers here to replace American workers and increase the Dream Act so that more foreign students can get free educations that are denied to American children. At his direction the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security, cut the funding for Border, Immigration and Trade Security. Immigration enforcement has been thrown out the window and the door has been kicked wide open for anyone who wants to come here.

Today the Obama administration filed their lawsuit against the one state in the union that had the audacity to attempt to enforce the sovereignty of the American border. The federal government’s position in this lawsuit is that Arizona’s law usurps the federal government’s constitutional “pre-eminent authority” to regulate immigration. I predict that the federal government has nothing to stand on and will lose this case. They will appeal that decision and lose again. The Arizona law will stand because there is nothing unconstitutional about enforcing the law.

Barack Obama seems to have forgotten that the only “pre-eminent authority” in the United States of America is vested in the people. The sovereignty of this nation is in the hands of the people and the government is our servant. The American people will suffer many errors in judgment and poorly thought out legislative acts without any word of discontent being uttered, but when our government ceases entirely to serve our needs and begins to serve the needs of others to our great and grievous detriment then we must sit up and take notice. Our rights are being destroyed; our property is being taken away from us and given to foreigners while our protests go unheard and unnoticed. Our children and grandchildren, for generations to come will live only at the mercy of the government that owns them. Freedom and liberty are being intentionally killed off by our federal government and many still sit dumbly doing nothing because it has not yet destroyed the accumulated trappings of their comfortable lives. Our children will curse our names if the legacy we bequeath to them is slavery to an immoral state.

Our nation is falling into disarray, our environment and some of the most scenic wonders of our nation are being destroyed and our economy is failing miserably while our congress and the president work tirelessly to dismantle our constitution and create a new form of government that we neither want nor support. The American people must stop this insanity. In the last year and a half Obama has spent more time on the golf course and his seven vacations than he has spent running the nation. Maybe we should be grateful he isn’t in the oval office more.

For now the system of checks and balances seems to be working. The Judiciary, while somewhat flaky at times, has done the right thing with recent landmark decisions protecting the individual’s right to own firearms and by extending the right to spend money on elections to corporations; a right that labor unions have used to put so many Democrats in office. Despite sound logic and constitutional basis for both of these decisions, Obama publicly criticized the Supreme Court justices under the spotlight of national television while the Senate Democrats roared their approval of his unwarranted criticism.

Republican attorneys from 20 states have already filed suit over the Obamacare mandate that will force everyone to buy health insurance. The basis for most of these lawsuits is that the U.S. Congress has far exceeded their constitutional power with the requirement and that they have ventured too far into the jurisdiction reserved by the U.S. Constitution for the states alone. If the court determines that Congress has overstepped their authority there is a good chance that the entire health care reform bill could end up in the trash can.

The congressional Democrats, with Obama’s prodding have embarked on an unprecedented socialist drive to heavily regulate stockholder owned corporations, banks, health insurers and the energy industry. Obama’s push for cap and trade legislation will be the crowning achievement of his effort to regulate every aspect of American life and business. Eventually these heavy-handed government efforts to control the everyday activities of every person and business in the country will result in suits being filed and inevitably the question of their constitutionality will be raised.

Obama is working hard to stack the federal courts with liberal judges and judicial activists who will do his bidding. If he manages to get his appointees through the confirmation hearings now underway the system of checks and balances will cease to exist, the constitution will become meaningless, our individual rights may become lost forever and the federal government of the United States will, most likely, become the enemy of the people. I speak without certainty on these matters because I am far from infallible and I have no ability to see that far into the future. However, I can speak with certainty when I say that the United States government was founded upon constitutional principles which included a series of checks and balances that our current administration is working tirelessly to overcome. That is not to the benefit of the American people for the simple reason that it puts the government in the position of sovereignty that belongs to the people alone. The sole purpose of the American Revolutionary War was to take the sovereignty away from the King of England and give it to the people of the new Republic we now call the United States of America. The power and authority of the King became the power and authority of the people. The formation of our government came after the revolution and it’s authority to govern was granted by the sovereign people of the new nation that had been formed. Any attempt to reverse that order is contrary to the best interests of the American people because it replaces their freedom and liberty with the tyranny of an all-powerful government capable of eliminating their rights and liberties as it see fit for its own benefit. The form of government that Barack Obama desires to form is a collective form of government where the good of all takes precedent over the rights of the individual. In a collective form of government there is no freedom, there are no property rights and there is no liberty. Equality is achieved by taking the property of some and redistributing it to those who have less as the government sees fit. Prosperity cannot exist in a system of collective government where all property becomes the property of the state to be taken and redistributed as the state see fit to do. The ability to prosper to the highest possible level of one’s own ability is what has made this nation the envy of all others. The ability to prosper by the sweat and labor of one’s own initiative has been the sole motivating factor that brought millions of immigrants to this land from their distant homes where their labor produced riches for others and all property belonged to their masters. The whole idea that an individual could keep what he or she earned and that the ownership of the property they acquired was guaranteed as an inalienable right guaranteed to all men was a revolutionary idea of such magnificent proportion that few could believe such a concept existed. It was the dream of all who yearned for the freedom of a tyrant’s shackles, it was the one founding concept that made this nation what it became over the 233 years preceding the rise of Barack Obama and it is the antithesis of all that he and his fellow conspirators now seek to destroy forever.

The American people need to know that history is full of examples showing us that freedom lost is never regained. Once the chains are locked into place around our wrists those chains will remain locked forever after. The constitution will become a meaningless piece of paper and our inalienable rights will be limited to only what the government deems essential. The right to speak freely will cease to exist, the right to own firearms to defend yourself and your family against criminals, and more specifically, against the government, will be taken from us, due process will become what the government defines it, property rights will be the domain of the government and we will be the servants of the tyrants our ancestors struggled to escape by coming here so many years ago, and our children and grandchildren will grow up as slaves never knowing that which we gave away through our own apathy and ignorance. This is the true nature of the “Change” that Barack Obama promised to us and now works to implement across our land. It must be resisted at all costs, and by any means necessary. Balance must be restored.

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